Putting Down and Putting Off: The EU’s Discursive Strategies in the 1998 and 1999 Follow-Up Reports 
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Elmarasztalin és elhalasztani: Az EU diszkurzív stratégiái az 1998-as és 1999-es országjelentésekben
Putting Down and Putting Off: The EU’s Discursive Strategies in the 1998 and 1999 Follow-Up Reports

Author(s): Melinda Kovács
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Replika Alapítvány
Keywords: EU; eastern applicants; Follow-Up Reports; Rhetorics; Political discourse; EU-enlargement

Summary/Abstract: Under the scrutiny of qualitative discourse analysis, the 1998 and 1999 reports by the EU on the eastern applicants reveal the two main discursive strategies of the EU towards these countries: inferiorizing them and postponing their admission. These strategies foreclose inclusion of eastern European countries as anything other than second class members of the Union.

  • Issue Year: 2001
  • Issue No: 45-46
  • Page Range: 65-79
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Hungarian
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